Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA's EXCITE mission. As a scientist ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

In the more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several ...

Astronomers have officially confirmed the existence of HD 20794 d, a super-Earth located just 20 light-years away, with ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

he has no problem picking is favorite piece of research yet. "My favorite exoplanet research so far has probably been the Early Release Science program on WASP-39b," "That was some of the very ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has had an impact on astronomy since ...